Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau is one of the most established comic artists working today, he's worked for Marvel, DC Comics and game publishers including Capcom and Square Enix. but the issues around generative AI and art haven't escaped him. The rise in popularity of the best AI art generators has kept the debate around whether AI is good, bad or workable for artists a constant discourse.
For Stanley, AI and its uses in art is a straightforward one – AI isn't art, it can't make art, and it isn't creative. "I don’t agree that AI images are art,” Stanley states firmly. “I don’t consider them art because art is exclusively a human endeavour. You need to have a person who interacts and interprets the world through a very specific visual lens and then transforms that into art. That must be done by a human."
